i currently have pink hair and i have an event coming up where i’ll need my natural black hair but i don’t want to dye it 😭 is there anything i can use that can wash out but also won’t transfer and stain my clothes?
I made this post yesterday but I deleted it because I was scared of my boss seeing it but I really need advice:
I started as a bather at this company in south florida (corporate- not petsmart/petco) for less than minimum wage + pooled tips. They had me bathing 15-22 dogs a day (not all dogs get fully blow dried which is how they can squeeze in so many appointments). Every bath is given 15 minutes and blow dries are 15 to 45 minutes depending on the size. The 15 minute bath also includes a nail trim/grind, ear cleaning, teeth brushing, a towel dry, and 3 minute blow dry. It was so hard on me physically and mentally because i'm chronically ill so it was hard on my body and the amount of stress from doing so many dogs in so little time and the getting in trouble with the groomers if they're not perfectly clean or completely dry in time.
They started training me to groom which took about 6 months but their priority is always speed over a good groom and they only do one length haircuts all over so when I tried to improve or get feedback they would say "thats fine it just has to be good enough not perfect, we're not a fancy salon." Now i've been officially a groomer for a month (making $1 above minimum wage + pooled tips) and I've had some issues with choppy haircuts and they have another groomer fix it without explaining to me how to improve or letting me watch and they've deemed me as a bad groomer and have been booking me as a bather again.
The only other two groomers are also so rude (one of them called me stupid multiple times and rolls her eyes at me when I ask for help) and the other one straight up laughs in my face and is so condescending. These are the only people I have to help me because the owners aren't groomers.
I want to find a new salon but I'm scared that I'll have to restart as a bather (because its so hard on my body) since they didn't train me properly as a groomer and I have so little experience. I've posted my haircuts here before and have gotten great responses on the good ones but l've also had some terrible haircuts and I'm scared that I'm not good enough to start as a groomer for another salon.
After I made that post everyone told me I should apply to private salons so I can really learn and improve on my haircuts so I started applying on indeed and I made a post on a groomers for hire facebook group. My boss saw my post within 5 hours of me posting it (on an account she doesn’t follow me on) and had a talk with me. She said I’m not ready to work at a private salon and don’t have enough experience. Also that another groomer left with the same goals and now she makes no money and regrets it because shes always the last one booked. I said I want to go somewhere that I can really be trained and learn more because none of the groomers at my salon help me or offer advice (the one that trained me was the one that left) and she said that they hired a new groomer and maybe she can help me. I also expressed concerns about being overworked (22 baths in a day) and she said thats why we’re hiring more people. But the bathing room is small and only has one drying table and its already fully packed when theres 4 people so I cant even imagine how hot and overcrowded it’ll be with even more bathers. At the end she said “you know I’m a mom and you’re young so I just want to make sure you don’t regret your decision and ruin your life” and gave me a hug. Is she just trying to scare me out of leaving or would it really be that bad?
The cherry on top: She said if I do quit and don’t give a two weeks notice she can take the tips from my last paycheck.
Also slightly unrelated note: is it normal for your boss to constantly watch you on the cameras from their house? And probably listen as well (one of the rooms cameras has sound, and thats the room she wanted to have this talk in). She will randomly text me stuff like “floor still dirty pls clean” from her house. She also mentioned something i said once when she wasnt around and said “I hear everything around here 😊”
i posted this in a facebook group and they told me that grooming isn’t for me because i have too many complaints and if bathing is hard on my body i’ll never survive grooming so i wanted some more opinions on this. is grooming not for me or do i just need to find another salon?
I started as a bather at this company in south florida (corporate- not petsmart/petco) for less than minimum wage + pooled tips. They had me bathing 15-22 dogs a day (not all dogs get fully blow dried which is how they can squeeze in so many appointments). Every bath is given 15 minutes and blow dries are 15 to 45 minutes depending on the size of the dog. The 15 minute bath also includes a nail trim/grind, ear cleaning, teeth brushing, a towel dry, and 3 minute blow dry. It was so hard on me physically and mentally because i'm chronically ill so it was hard on my body and the amount of stress from doing so many dogs in so little time and the getting in trouble with the groomers if they're not completely prepped in time.
They started training me to groom which took about 6 months but their priority is always speed over a good groom and they only do one length haircuts all over so when I tried to improve or get feedback they would say "thats fine it just has to be good enough not perfect, we're not a fancy salon." Now i've been officially a groomer for a month (making $1 above minimum wage + pooled tips) and I've had some issues with choppy haircuts and they had another groomer fix it without explaining to me how to improve or letting me watch and they've deemed me as a bad groomer and have been booking me as a bather again.
The only other two groomers are also so rude (one of them called me stupid multiple times and rolls her eyes at me when I ask for help) and the other one straight up laughs in my face and is so condescending. These are the only people I have to help me because the owners aren't groomers.
I want to find a new salon but I'm scared that I'll have to restart as a bather with how hard it is on my body since they didn't train me properly as a groomer and I have so little experience. I've posted my haircuts here before and have gotten great responses on the good ones but l've also had some terrible haircuts and I'm scared that I'm not good enough to start as a groomer for another salon. (I’ll include some of my haircuts on this post)
i posted this in a facebook group and they told me that grooming isn’t for me because i have too many complaints and if bathing is hard on my body i’ll never survive grooming so i wanted some more opinions on this. is grooming not for me or do i just need to find another salon?
I started as a bather at this company in south florida (corporate- not petsmart/petco) for less than minimum wage + pooled tips. They had me bathing 15-22 dogs a day (not all dogs get fully blow dried which is how they can squeeze in so many appointments). Every bath is given 15 minutes and blow dries are 15 to 45 minutes depending on the size of the dog. The 15 minute bath also includes a nail trim/grind, ear cleaning, teeth brushing, a towel dry, and 3 minute blow dry. It was so hard on me physically and mentally because i'm chronically ill so it was hard on my body and the amount of stress from doing so many dogs in so little time and the getting in trouble with the groomers if they're not completely prepped in time.
They started training me to groom which took about 6 months but their priority is always speed over a good groom and they only do one length haircuts all over so when I tried to improve or get feedback they would say "thats fine it just has to be good enough not perfect, we're not a fancy salon." Now i've been officially a groomer for a month (making $1 above minimum wage + pooled tips) and I've had some issues with choppy haircuts and they had another groomer fix it without explaining to me how to improve or letting me watch and they've deemed me as a bad groomer and have been booking me as a bather again.
The only other two groomers are also so rude (one of them called me stupid multiple times and rolls her eyes at me when I ask for help) and the other one straight up laughs in my face and is so condescending. These are the only people I have to help me because the owners aren't groomers.
I want to find a new salon but I'm scared that I'll have to restart as a bather with how hard it is on my body since they didn't train me properly as a groomer and I have so little experience. I've posted my haircuts here before and have gotten great responses on the good ones but l've also had some terrible haircuts and I'm scared that I'm not good enough to start as a groomer for another salon. (I’ll include some of my haircuts on this post)
i posted this in a facebook group and they told me that grooming isn’t for me because i have too many complaints and if bathing is hard on my body i’ll never survive grooming so i wanted some more opinions on this. is grooming not for me or do i just need to find another salon?
I started as a bather at this company in south florida (corporate- not petsmart/petco) for less than minimum wage + pooled tips. They had me bathing 15-22 dogs a day (not all dogs get fully blow dried which is how they can squeeze in so many appointments). Every bath is given 15 minutes and blow dries are 15 to 45 minutes depending on the size of the dog. The 15 minute bath also includes a nail trim/grind, ear cleaning, teeth brushing, a towel dry, and 3 minute blow dry. It was so hard on me physically and mentally because i'm chronically ill so it was hard on my body and the amount of stress from doing so many dogs in so little time and the getting in trouble with the groomers if they're not completely prepped in time.
They started training me to groom which took about 6 months but their priority is always speed over a good groom and they only do one length haircuts all over so when I tried to improve or get feedback they would say "thats fine it just has to be good enough not perfect, we're not a fancy salon." Now i've been officially a groomer for a month (making $1 above minimum wage + pooled tips) and I've had some issues with choppy haircuts and they had another groomer fix it without explaining to me how to improve or letting me watch and they've deemed me as a bad groomer and have been booking me as a bather again.
The only other two groomers are also so rude (one of them called me stupid multiple times and rolls her eyes at me when I ask for help) and the other one straight up laughs in my face and is so condescending. These are the only people I have to help me because the owners aren't groomers.
I want to find a new salon but I'm scared that I'll have to restart as a bather with how hard it is on my body since they didn't train me properly as a groomer and I have so little experience. I've posted my haircuts here before and have gotten great responses on the good ones but l've also had some terrible haircuts and I'm scared that I'm not good enough to start as a groomer for another salon. (I’ll include some of my haircuts on this post)